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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government

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